Category: Business

Des Moines – The Vision Iowa Board awarded $1,098,000 in grants to a public garden in Jefferson, community centers in Templeton and Emmetsburg, a backcountry trail in Coon Rapids and an amphitheater…

WATERLOO, Iowa – The Iowa State Athletics Department was honored Thursday night at the 2013 Iowa Tourism Conference for its work with the Greater Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau, Polk County…

WASHINGTON – Today, the Administration reached the most significant milestone of the President’s Export Control Reform Initiative (ECR) with the nation’s first set of revised export control lists going into effect.  With…

DES MOINES – The Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Department and the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship last week reminded farmers impacted by recent severe weather to contact their…

NEW YORK – The Federal Reserve Board recently announced that JPMorgan Chase & Co., New York, New York (JPMC), a registered bank holding company, will pay a $200 million penalty for deficiencies…

AMES, Iowa – Kenny McCabe and James Schrader grabbed two pots of marigolds and placed them on a greenhouse bench. On the left, in a pot made from a biorenewable mix of…

MASON CITY – IowaWORKS North Iowa, along with North Iowa Area Community College, is hosting a regional career fair on Wednesday, October 16 from 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm. The event will…

AMES, Iowa – Iowa farmers who don’t emphasize good grain storage practices this fall will pay for it in the spring, when they find the corn they harvested contaminated with unusual amounts…

AMES, Iowa – Oct. 11, 2013 – With a January 2014 compliance date quickly approaching to meet medical self-certification requirements for commercial driver’s license holders, the Iowa Department of Transportation is reminding…

~ Thursday, October 10, 2013 The following message from the Attorney General was emailed to Justice Department employees on October 10, 2013. Dear Colleagues, This ongoing shutdown continues to be a very…

FOREST CITY, Iowa, Oct. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Winnebago Industries, Inc. (NYSE: WGO), a leading United States (U.S.) recreation vehicle manufacturer, will issue an advisory release and host a conference call on Thursday, October 17,…

WASHINGTON  -The Justice Department announced today that it reached an agreement yesterday with International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) resolving allegations that the company violated the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality…

MASON CITY – The North Iowa Corridor, Cerro Gordo Chambers of Mason City and Clear Lake, NIACC John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center have partnered with the University of Northern Iowa to offer an…

FOREST CITY – Winnebago Industries, Inc. (NYSE:WGO), a leading U.S. manufacturer of recreation vehicles, has been selected to the Barron’s 400 Index after a four-year absence. This marks the fourth time Winnebago…

FOREST CITY – Winnebago Industries, Inc. (NYSE: WGO), a leading United States manufacturer of recreation vehicles, announced it has selected New York-based licensing agency, Brandgenuity, as its exclusive licensing agent of record….

Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the “Community Banking in the 21st Century,” a Conference Co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve System and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, St. Louis, Missouri October 2,…

ROSELAND, N.J. Private sector employment increased by 166,000 jobs from August to September, according to the September ADP National Employment Report. The report, which is derived from ADP’s actual payroll data, measures…

(Washington, September 25, 2013) – Today, the Iowa Federation of Labor praised the national announcement of a partnership between the AFL-CIO and United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS). The alliance between AFL-CIO and…

Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on the government’s settlement with J.P. Morgan over the firm’s “London Whale” trades. The trades were the subject of a nine-month investigation…

Business Roundtable Headquarters Washington, D.C. 10:46 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. (Applause.) Well, Jim, thank you for the introduction. Thanks to Dave and Andrew and John — all the men…

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University is again among the top 50 public national universities in U.S. News & World Report’s 2014 “America’s Best Colleges” rankings out last week. Iowa State is…

AMES, Iowa – Veterinary researchers at Iowa State University have developed a new test to detect antibodies against Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDV), a costly disease in pigs confirmed in the United…

WASHINGTON – Coffee rust is a destructive fungus that infects a coffee plant’s leaves, causing them to yellow and drop prematurely, thereby reducing yields and bean quality. Central America, southern Mexico, and…

WASHINGTON – Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will host a town hall meeting with educators from across the country on November 13. The educators will join the Chairman at 7 p.m. EST in…

FOREST CITY, Iowa, Sept. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Winnebago Industries, Inc. (NYSE:WGO), a leading U.S. manufacturer of recreation vehicles, is debuting three new and exciting products at BusCon Expo 2013 to be…

Washington, DC – The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission) has notified the Minneapolis Grain Exchange, Inc. (MGEX) of the results of a rule enforcement review completed by the Commission’s Division of Market…

Remedy Requires Apple to Modify Agreements with Five Publishers; Provides for a Court-Appointed External Monitor; Includes Anti-Retaliatory Provisions to Protect Publishers; Prohibits Apple from Engaging in Future Anticompetitive Conduct Assistant Attorney General…

ROSELAND, N.J. – September 5, 2013 – Private sector employment increased by 176,000 jobs from July to August, according to the August ADP National Employment Report. Broadly distributed to the public each…

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – September 4, 2013 – Nonprofits across Iowa received Community Grants totaling $134,900 from the Alliant Energy Foundation as part of its summer grant making process. The grants were…

North Iowa Area Community College offers classes at the College’s area Education Centers and local communities. Whether you’re interested in pursuing a degree, upgrading your skills, or taking a few classes just…

Speaking at the Port of Houston today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker highlighted new data that show U.S. manufactured exports supported 6.4 million jobs in 2011. About 10 percent of those…

A Forest City business, HMR Supplies, is among seven companies that have been selected as finalists in the 2013 John Pappajohn Iowa Business Plan Competition. In the first round, businesses submitted brief…

NEW YORK, August 27, 2013…The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index, which had declined in July, increased slightly in August. The Index now stands at 81.5 (1985=100), up from 81.0 in July. The…

Washington D.C., Aug. 26, 2013 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Noblesville, Ind., resident and his company with defrauding investors in a Ponzi scheme that targeted retirement savings. The…

AMES, Iowa – Instead of walking across campus to attend class in a lecture hall this fall, a growing number of Iowa State University students will log on from home, the library…

From the SEC – The continuous and orderly functioning of the securities markets is critically important to the health of our financial system and the confidence of investors. Today’s interruption in trading,…

NEW YORK – Retailers continue to deal with consumers’ uneven shopping patterns this past week as weakness was once again seen across retail categories. As a result for the week ending August…